Lenovo (Beijing) Ltd.

Embodiments of the present application are related to a method and apparatus for determining timing advance value. According an embodiment of the present application, an exemplary method includes: receiving association information between timing advance (TA) value for uplink transmission and downlink reference signal (RS), wherein each TA value is associated with an index of at least one corresponding downlink RS; determining a downlink RS index for associating with a TA value for uplink transmission; and determining the TA value for uplink transmission based on the association information. Accordingly, embodiments of the present application can indicate and determine TA value with reduced signaling overhead.

Embodiments of the present application relate to a method and apparatus for sidelink DRX alignment. An exemplary method includes: obtaining configuration information indicating at least one DRX configuration for a data, wherein the at least one DRX configuration is associated with a first resource pool; and transmitting or receiving the data based on the at least one DRX configuration indicated by the configuration information. Embodiments of the present application can minimize the power consumption of the UEs as well as ensuring the data transmission among the UEs.

The present application is related to a method and apparatus for sensing measurement and report for 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project) 5G new radio (NR) sidelink (SL). A method for wireless communications performed by user equipment (UE) includes: receiving sensing report configuration information, and the sensing report configuration information includes linkage information among a set of sidelink resources for the UE, a sensing result request resource, and a sensing result report resource; determining, based on the sensing report configuration information, whether to transmit a sensing result message; and in response to a determination of transmitting the sensing result message, transmitting the sensing result message.

Embodiments of the present application relate to a method and an apparatus for resource selection on NR sidelink. According to an embodiment of the present application, a method can include: receiving resource selection controlling information; and determining one or more candidate resources in a resource selection window of a resource pool for a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH) transmission and/or a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) transmission based on the resource selection controlling information. Embodiments of the present application can save power for VRUs as well as decrease resource collision between the traffics affected by the resource selection controlling information.

The present application relates to a user equipment, a base station, and a method for relaxed RRM measurement. The base station transmits information to the user equipment. The user equipment receives the information from a base station on a condition for enabling a relaxed RRM measurement, and then performs the relaxed RRM measurement during a period according to the information. The period is associated with a state of the user equipment.

Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatuses for detecting a sidelink transmission burst over an unlicensed spectrum. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method performed by a user equipment (UE) for wireless communication includes: generating a sequence; and transmitting the sequence at a beginning of a sidelink burst on a carrier, starting from a first candidate position of a set of candidate positions in a first slot, wherein the sequence spans a predetermined number of consecutive symbols in time domain and the sidelink burst is contiguously transmitted in time domain without any gap.

Methods and apparatuses for associating aperiodic SRS triggering state(s) with SRS resource sets or SRS CC sets are disclosed. A method comprises transmitting an Activation/Deactivation MAC CE to indicate or update the association between aperiodic SRS triggering state(s) and the aperiodic SRS resource set(s) for the SRS request field value carried by DCI format 0_1 or 1_1 or DCI format 2_3 with a higher layer parameter srs-TPC-PDCCH-Group=typeB or the SRS CC set(s) for the SRS request field value carried by DCI format 2_3 with the higher layer parameter srs-TPC-PDCCH-Group=typeA.

Methods and apparatuses for determining default spatial relation and default PL-RS are disclosed. A method comprises determining a default spatial relation and a default pathloss reference RS (PL-RS) for transmission of uplink resource on a serving cell without configured CORESET, the uplink resource is configured with neither higher layer parameter related to spatial relation nor higher layer parameter related to PL-RS, and the higher layer parameter related to enable default beam for the uplink resource is set to ‘enable’, and transmitting the uplink resource according to the determined default spatial relation and the power determined by the determined default PL-RS.

Embodiments of the present application relate to a method and an apparatus for initial access of a user equipment (UE). According to an embodiment of the present application, a method can include: a method may include: detecting, at a first UE, a first synchronization signal block (SSB); determining whether a subcarrier offset value indicated by the first SSB is within a first range or a second range; and determining whether the first SSB has a valid access configuration for the first UE based on an indication in master system information (MIB) of the first SSB. Embodiments of the present application can facilitate the NR-Light UE to detect the initial access parameters, thereby implementation of the initial access procedure for the NR-Light UE.

Embodiments of the present application are directed to a method and apparatus for sidelink DRX operation. An exemplary method may include: configuring DRX information for sidelink, wherein the DRX information includes a value of DRX on-duration timer, a DRX cycle, and at least one DRX offset value; and starting the DRX on-duration timer from a beginning position based on the DRX cycle and the DRX offset value.